On 31 Oct 2013, Sunrise project held its kick-off meeting in Rome. The SUNRISE project objectives are to develop (i) federated underwater communication networks, based on pilot infrastructure already designed, built and deployed by consortium partners, in diverse environments (Mediterranean, Ocean, Black Sea, Lakes, Canals), web-accessible and interfaced with existing FIRE facilities to experiment with Future Internet technologies, (ii) a software-defined open-architecture modem and protocol stack that will empower open collaborative developments, (iii) standard platforms for simulation, emulation and replay testing to estimate underwater communication networks at a fraction of time, cost, complexity of current at-sea experiments, validated by tests conducted on the SUNRISE networks over a variety of applications and environments, and (iv) a user-friendly interface for diverse users to interact with SUNRISE systems to conduct trials and benefit from databases of underwater Internet of Things performance data gathered over long periods from the SUNRISE infrastructure.

On 29-30 October 2013, Paul Havinga attended the workshop “Cyber-Physical Systems: Uplifting Europe's innovation capacity” in Brussels, where he presented the success story of the Wibrate project. The presentation was well received by the more than 100 people in the audience.

On 25 Oct 2013, the final project review of the GENESI project took place in Fribourg, Switzerland. Following the review, GENESI project was successfully ended and was stated that it has fully achieved its objectives and in some cases has gone beyond. The GENESI project addresses long lasting structural health monitoring of buildings, bridges, tunnels using wireless sensor networks.